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Boots & Buckles event to raising money for grants

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Fri, 04/04/2014 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL   The Copperas Cove Education Foundation is hosting Boots & Buckles: Funding the Future, a gala to raise funds for teacher grants throughout CCISD.

Citizens can’t cry fowl play on ordinance

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Fri, 04/04/2014 - 05:00
By DAVID MORRIS   In an unanimous decision, Tuesday night the Copperas Cove City Council put the hen hassle to bed deciding not to actively enforce the ordinance prohibiting chickens in residentially zoned neighborhoods unless a resident files a valid complaint.

Birthday Bash

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Tue, 04/01/2014 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL   Ogletree Gap was filled with the sounds of party music and the pavilion was decorated with gold Mylar balloons, along with blue and white balloons, as Copperas Cove celebrated its 135th birthday at the location of its “birth.

Batty Piecemakers stitched together

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Tue, 04/01/2014 - 05:00
By DAVID MORRIS   The ladies from the Batty Piecemakers Quilting Bee gather inside the sanctuary of Copperas Cove Christian Church for their therapy sessions as they stitch together lap quilts, one four inch square at a time.

Five Brothers Barbecue opens doors

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Tue, 04/01/2014 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL   Michael Reick, Barry Sheffield, Thomas Munn, Christopher Motley and D.J. Foskey consider themselves an urban family, and the five brothers realized a dream when hosting their restaurant’s ribbon cutting on Saturday afternoon.
Marianne McDonnell helps kindergarten students browse through books as they select one to keep. The Copperas Cove Retired Teachers Association donated close to 600 books to the students of the district throughout the school year.

Marianne McDonnell helps kindergarten students browse through books as they select one to keep. The Copperas Cove Retired Teachers Association donated close to 600 books to the students of the district throughout the school year.

Bookie Lookie

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Fri, 03/28/2014 - 05:00
By DAVID MORRIS   More than two dozen kindergarten students from Mae Stevens Elementary school walked out of their school’s library Wednesday with a book to keep, thanks to the Copperas Cove Retired Teachers.
Rachella Leggett, right, prepares a meatloaf as Frederic Walton takes out the trash prior to a lunch at the Cove Soup Kitchen.

Rachella Leggett, right, prepares a meatloaf as Frederic Walton takes out the trash prior to a lunch at the Cove Soup Kitchen.

Cove Soup Kitchen offers more than warm meals

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Fri, 03/28/2014 - 05:00
By DAVID MORRIS   If Rachella Leggett had her way the Copperas Cove Soup Kitchen would have multiple locations throughout the city providing warm meals to the less fortunate.

County entities to voice concerns about future water needs

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Fri, 03/28/2014 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL   At Monday’s meeting of the Coryell County commissioners court, county judge John Firth shared a letter from the Texas Water Development Board, or TWDB, in response to the county’s resolution 2014-03, asking the board for assistance with conducting a water study on the county’s...

Charlie’s Angels

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Tue, 03/25/2014 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL   Sunday afternoon rain and chilly weather did nothing to dampen the spirits of well over 100 who attended a fundraiser for Charlie Williams, a Covite recently diagnosed with stage IV lung, liver and colon cancer.
Brennan Kellum grabs a photo of the interior of a 1939 Ford at Saturday’s Moose Lodge car show.

Brennan Kellum grabs a photo of the interior of a 1939 Ford at Saturday’s Moose Lodge car show.

Moose Lodge hosts first ever car show

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Tue, 03/25/2014 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL   The rain stayed away for Copperas Cove Moose Lodge 2029 to hold its firstever car show in the parking lot of its meeting hall on Saturday afternoon. Moose Lodge member Alex Smith chaired the event, which drew about 18-20 car exhibitors.